Letter: Solve beach driving issues with parking changes

Editor: Inasmuch as the County Commission is considering new regulations for beach driving and parking, I would like to put forth a modest proposal for their consideration.

Place the driving cones as close to the dunes as is practical for driving while not intruding into the dune area. Then have the cars park immediately east of the cones, rather than to the west of the driving lane as is the current procedure. This would have several salutary effects:

1) It would protect the slope of the dunes and allow for their natural renourishment. Current parking west of the driving lane on the dune slope inhibits, rather than enhances, renourishment.

2) It would enhance safety as children (and adults) would no longer be darting out from the line of parked cars, across the lane of traffic, to reach the beach.

3) It would reduce, if not eliminate, cars from being stuck in the beach sand as they would be parked on the hard sand to the east of the traffic lane, rather than in the soft sand to the west of it.